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a Countenance itself, from the [?]

can only be Noticed or favored for their atrocious Murders,
Roberies, and a disolute Wantonness, to commit every diabolical
Crime, that could possibly suggest itself to savage invention.

A great number of people are determined to descend
the Mississippi, and if ^the measures are pursued, that now
so impertinently Stare us in the face; I fear one half
of our Citizens will flock over into another government; indeed,
they are now doing it daily - Instead of our state ^in its infancy, being encouraged,
Fostered, and Matured, it appears that measures are [?]=
ating to check and destroy its the happiness, if not its existence.

Suppose our delegation, on proviso, an ^no other mode could
not be effected; would propose to extinguish the indians
Claim a second time, at our own expense; Certainly if the
General Government had any intention, to of doing any thing to
benefit us, in this remote corner they will not object to a
measure purely right in its self, and without cost to the
Union. The prevention of a settlement at or near the Muscell
Shoals [sic] is a manifest injury done the whole Western Country;
And so long as it may be is the case, we shall be debared [sic] from
the navigation ^which leads by ^the way of Moabile [sic]; perhaps a an outlet to commerce
equal, if not Superior, to any in the United States.

Permit me to remark to you, that the American line
will Cross low down on the ^bay of Moabile [sic], which will include a
number of inhabitants there with^in our line, that there is ^also now settled
high up on Tom bigby river [sic], a considerable number of families
above between the chickasaw nation & the Alabama